Settlement activity in the Lund area began with the completion of the railway line through the Escalante Valley in the winter of 1898-99, but Lund's population remained extremely small until 1911, when the valley was opened to homestead settlement

located in Lund in southernmost Sweden, is one of Sweden's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities